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As lots of you know, the government is engaged in a massive overhaul of the way care that comes out of the community care budget is organised. Known as the ‘personalisation’ or ‘transformation’ agenda, the basic idea is to give beneficiaires a personal budget that they can spend how they want.
It is supposed to be up and running by 2011 and a lot of the initial focus is on older people. However, the principles are supposed to run across all of community care.
What does everyone think about drug users getting their own budget to spend on rehab etc? Is this just according users the same basic respect as anyone else, or madness encouraging relapse as people at the early stages of change are given access to large pots of money that could be spent on drugs?
In reality, there will have to be some sort of mechanism that balances these issues? But what should it be? I can’t find a local authority that has done any work on this yet, but it is to be hoped that the starting point is consultation with user groups?
I think this area is going to get a lot of attention over the next couple of years and am interested in what others think…
Let us know
Russell
Mark Gilman